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Dr. Politics gets bewitched

According to Wallace, he got two different explanations: First, a campaign spokesman said O’Donnell was “exhausted.” Then, O’Donnell called Wallace and told him: “I got triple-booked. I had been invited to go to church and then a picnic. I have to keep my priorities to Delaware voters.”

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Go ahead and mock. You just don’t understand O’Donnell and the other tea party candidates.

You could be right. There is a very good essay on Slate by Emily Bazelon, who says mocking O’Donnell is counterproductive. Instead of mocking her, Bazelon provides a serious analysis of O’Donnell’s choice of words and quotes a passage from her recent speech at the Values Voter Summit:

“It reminds me of the C.S. Lewis Narnia books,” O’Donnell said, “where the little girl asks someone about Aslan the lion, who represents God. She says, ‘I’m a little concerned over such a fearsome lion. Is he safe?’ And her friend says, ‘Safe? Who said anything about safe? Of course, he isn’t safe. But he’s good.’ Well, that’s what’s happening in America today with this grass-roots groundswell, this revolution of reason, this love affair with liberty. It isn’t tame but, boy, it sure is good.”

And?

And that is either a compelling — though chilling — piece of speechmaking, or it is an attempt to bewitch us.

You are hopeless.

It is clear that O’Donnell has already started her work in Washington. Take a look at the excerpts from the new Bob Woodward book. Woodward quotes Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, as saying: “You have to recognize also that I don’t think you win this war. ... You have to stay after it. This is the kind of fight we’re in for the rest of our lives and probably our kids’ lives.”

So?

So nobody who wasn’t under a spell would say a thing like that. And no president who wasn’t under a spell would keep him around.

Part of the Tea-Party-Voters are "Fed Up With GOP Trickle-Down" (that) Never Trickles Down To Their Kitchen Table, Small Business Start-Ups or Community Banks... IE Just saying "Deficit" no longer works for them, They Want an "Ike" (GOP Pres. who built The Interstate Highway System) - BUT- They don't realize that they Must Vote Out Boehner, Cantor, Mitch McCon and quit hearing "Newt" to get back to a True "Ike" Conservative Agenda

Part of the Tea-Party is "The Christian-Taliban" who want Government Only to punish those who don't obey their opinion of what those isolated single verses from the Bible says but will allow or deny teenage witches.

Part of the Tea-Party is just a group of "Paid-Political-Operatives" who work for the same establishment that caused this insurgency..

Part are innocents who just want a change in the way our nation is governed

Roger - give it up! This is not even college newspaper level satire. Go read some Jonathan Swift and find out how it's really done. Or better yet, stop trying to prove what a Clever Hans you are. You aren't.

I think it was a sociologist named Horsely who once observed that accusations of witchcraft can be a very effective means of social control. And who needs to be controlled, as of now and in history?

Women of course.

When do you light the fire under O'Donnell, now or after she wins the election?

Whenever that occurs, you can be assured that is not the first time in history that an "out-of-control" woman has been put into her subservient-to-the-masters "place", and that is where history and ancient theology report that she belongs.

Roger, when will you be running the interview with Che Guevara on the self-proclaimed "bearded Marxist"? Several of the points that Lord Voldemort makes in this weak attempt at sarcasm could be used by Che when he discusses his Democratic Senatorial candidate brother in arms from Delaware. For instance, although Strom Thurmond was a segregationist but still became a Senator, that doesn't even hold a candle to Bobby Byrd, who was both a Kleagle and an Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan and also became a Senator. And though Joe McCarthy as a Senator probably had a few screws loose, perhaps Che could use an an example Joe's separated at birth fraternal twin, Gene, who in addition to running unsuccessfully for President 5 times (including the most lopsided rout in modern electoral history the one time he actually got the Democratic nomination), was a flip-flopper of major proportions on, of all currently "hot button" topics, immigration (From Eugene McCarthy's Wikipedia article: "Along with Ted Kennedy, he was one of the original co-sponsors of the Immigration Act of 1965. He later regretted this, noting that "unrecognized by virtually all of the bill's supporters, were provisions which would eventually lead to unprecedented growth in numbers and the transfer of policy control from the elected representatives of the American people to individuals wishing to bring relatives to this country."[2] Taking a turn to the right, McCarthy became a member of the Board of Advisors of the Federation for American Immigration Reform.[3]" ) - in other words, he became a closet Jan Brewer fellow traveler, and we all know how crazy she is (expecting the Federal government to take a serious approach to enforcing its own laws, and attempting to take action at the state level when the Feds consistently refuse to do so - what a loon!). I wonder if we also could get the Rev. Wright to be interviewed concerning the current occupant of the White House - I hear he did some interesting things and put some interesting thoughts down on paper during high school and thereafter that could possibly eclipse anything that Ms. O'Donnel stands accused of - too bad those source materials have been voluntarily classified as "off limits" by you and most of the rest of the media.

Hmm, very funny. However, I wonder why you failed to include the late Sen. Robert Byrd in the segregationist category, I mean, straight KKK category. I guess it shows your true colors. As for general Petraeus being "under a spell", yes, I guess it is the kind of spell that makes people see clearly through the muddy politics ... and I'd rather don't comment on the spell our beloved President is under.

For instance, although Strom Thurmond was a segregationist but still became a Senator, that doesn't even hold a candle to Bobby Byrd, who was both a Kleagle and an Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan and also became a Senator.

Apparently you are so naive and uninformed about the world that you have no midea how things work. Robert Byrd was at one time, as you say, a dyed in the wool KKK member, just as some people are alcoholics and some people are smokers. What you neglect to realize is that circumstances and/or education change people.

There is noone harder on drinkers than a refomed alcoholic. There is noone harder on smokers than a reformed smoker. It is also true (as it was with Robert Byrd) that there is noone harder on segregationists than a reformed segregationist. The corollary to this is that there is noone FOR civil rights more than a reformed segregationist, and that was true of Robert Byrd.

"Why not? Strom Thurmond, a segregationist, was in the Senate. Joe McCarthy, a nut case, was in the Senate. Why not a witch?"

Also, Obama won the presidency, Barney Frank keeps getting elected, Hillary Clinton had a seance in the W.H., one democrat politician thinks islands can tip over, another thinks North and South Vietnam exist side by side and politicians from both parties laugh at the "little people".